Word: conrades
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...Arrow collar advertisements; 3) never be thoroughly morbid. Hence, The Man Who Laughs is a truly great, a devastatingly beautiful film. It was made by Universal Pictures Corp. from the story by Victor Hugo, directed by Paul Leni (the German who did the sets for Variety), acted chiefly by Conrad Veidt (another German importation). The tale goes back to early medievalism in England where political irregularity was punished in a most horrible manner. Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), whose noble father had displeased King James II, was turned over to a gypsy band for proper punishment: a facial mutilation which leaves...
...came to England 40 years ago like a troubadour, to revolutionize English letters. I have been boycotted and spurned. I say now that this generation is the most sterile of any there has been in the way of literature. Not one of my living contemporaries is worth talking about. . . . Conrad's work will be dead in a year. Anyone could write the stuff he wrote about barges floating in green-blue hazes. . . . Thomas Hardy couldn't write two lines of correct English and . . . had no insight into human nature...
...Conrad Roy Keys, president of the Ctirtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., reported earnings of $794,148 (previous year: $413,317); explained that the increase was "due to larger volume of business and more especially to continuity of operations resulting in better utilization of manufacturing facilities...
Director Curtiz had opened this picture with such simple symbolism as a skinny cat sniffing garbage pails, following with a tale whose luridity dated back to the Black Crook, famed thriller. This one paraded the emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel). Eventually, wildly, wrongly, she is suspected of stealing, is arrested, scared under the third degree, where the spoken dialogue is first heard. To end this whole experimental footage, the actors use the academic, classic embrace...
...Were Single. A sportive and decorative quartet of players make gay this comedy of a gentleman who picks yellow buttercups outside the marital fence. Ted (Conrad Nagel) and May (May McAvoy) were married only a year when a brunette (Myrna Loy) crinkled her eyes at him, and he temporarily forgot all vows. The brunette borrowed his cigaret lighter, a present from his wife, and May discovers all. Alarmed, she telephones a mauve musician (Andre Beranger) and the two slip under the lap robes of the car in which the philandering pair are taking a speedy moonlight, midnight drive...